Fairbairn, then and now
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Fairbairn, then and now
(Relational perspectives book series, v. 10)
Analytic Press, 1998
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Proceedings of a conference held Oct. 4-6, 1996, at the New York Academy of Medicine
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
W. R. D. Fairbairn was both a precursor and an architect of revolutionary change in psychoanalysis. Through a handful of tightly reasoned papers written in the 1940s and 1950s, Fairbairn emerged as an incisive, albeit relatively obscure, voice in the wilderness, at considerable remove from mainstream Freudian and Kleinian psychoanalysis. But in the 1970s Harry Guntrip made Fairbairn's thinking more accessible to a wide readership, and Fairbairn's object relations theory, with its innovative theoretical and clinical concepts, was at the center of the turn toward relational thinking that swept psychoanalysis in the 1980s and 1990s.
Fairbairn, Then and Now is a landmark volume, because a thorough grasp of Fairbairn's contribution is crucial to any understanding of what is taking place within psychoanalysis today. And Fairbairn's work remains a treasure trove of rich insights into the problems and issues in theory and clinical practice with which analysts and therapists are struggling today.
This is a particularly propitious time for renewed focus on Fairbairn's contribution. A wealth of previously unpublished material has recently emerged, and the implications of Fairbairn's ideas for current developments in trauma, dissociation, infant research, self theory, field theory, and couple and family therapy are becoming increasingly clear. The conference that stimulated the contributions to this volume by internationally eminent Fairbairn clinicians and scholars was a historically important event, and Fairbairn, Then and Now makes the intellectual ferment generated by this event available to all interested readers.
Table of Contents
Introduction - David Scharff and Neil Skolnick
I. Historical Connections
Scottish Connection-Suttie-Fairbairn-Sutherland, A Quiet Revolution - Alan Harrow
Fairbairn's Contribution: An Interview with Otto Kernberg - David E. Scharff
"Developing Connections: Fairbairn's Philosophic Contribution - Ellinor Fairbairn Birtles
II. Theoretical Connections: To the Past
Repression and Dissociation-Freud and Janet: Fairbairn's New Model of Unconscious Process - Jody Messler Davies
Comparison of Fairbairn's Endopsychic Structure and Klein's Internal World - James S. Grotstein
The Dialectic Between W. R. D. Fairbairn and Wilfred Bion - Jeffrey Seinfeld
III. Theoretical Connections: To the Future
Fairbairn's Object Seeking: Between Paradigms - Stephen A. Mitchell
The Good, The Bad, and the Ambivalent: Fairbairn's Difficulty Locating the Good Object in the Endopsychic Structure - Neil J. Skolnick
Fairbairn and the Self: An Extension of Fairbairn's Theory by Sutherland - Jill Savage Scharff
IV. Artistic Connections
Alter Egos: Close Encounters of the Paranoid Kind: W. R. D. Fairbairn, Salvador Dali, and Me - Steven Z. Levine
A Fairbairnian Analysis of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Hilary J. Beattie
V. Clinical Connections
Fairbairn's Theory of Depression - Richard L. Rubens
Structural Sources of Resistance in the Battered Woman: A Fairbairnian Analysis - David P. Celani
Object Construction, Object Sorting, and Object Exclusion: Implications of Family and Marital Therapy for Object Relations Theory - David E. Scharff
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